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The Supreme Court of Canada: Kuwait Airways Corp. v. Republic of Iraq (Can.)

Kuwait Airways Corp. v. Republic of Iraq (Can.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Chimène I. Keitner
Chimène I. Keitner*
Affiliation:
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
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International Legal Materials , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 160 - 171
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2011

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Notes

* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the Supreme Court of Canada website (visited Mar. 30, 2011) http://scc.lexum.org/en/2010/2010scc40/2010scc40.html.

1 Kuwait Airways Corp. v. Republic of Iraq, 2010 S.C.C. 40, ¶ 13.

2 Re Canada Labour Code, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 50.

3 Kuwait Airways Corp., ¶ 31 (citing [1992] 2 S.C.R. 50, 73 (Can.)).

4 Re Canada Labour Code [1992] 91 D.L.R. 449, 463 ( S.C.C.).

5 Compare State Immunity Act, R.S.C. 1985, C. S-18, § 2, with Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, 90 Stat. 2891, Pub. L. 94-583, 28 U.S.C. § 1603(d).

6 Kuwait Airways Corp., ¶ 3.

7 Id. ¶ 2.

8 Id. (citing [2008] EWHC 2039).

9 2008 QCCS 4560, [2008] R.J.Q. 2421; 2009 QCCA 728, [2009] R.J.Q. 992.

10 Kuwait Airways Corp., ¶¶ 19-20.

11 Id. ¶ 34.

12 Id. ¶ 35.

13 Id. ¶ 2.

14 Id. ¶¶ 22-23.

15 Id. ¶¶ 30-31.

16 Id. ¶ 33.

17 Hersch, Lauterpacht, The Problem of Jurisdictional Immunities of Foreign States , 28 Brit. Y.B. Int’l L. 220, 224 (1951)Google Scholar.

18 Kuwait Airways Corp., ¶ 12.

19 Id. ¶ 24 (citing François, Larocque, La Loi sur L’immunité des États Canadienne et la Torture , 55 McGill L.J. 81 (2010)Google Scholar).